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Jbird 
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 15:09 |
List your top 5 (or more, if you prefer) concept albums! Doesn't have to be prog, any genre will do.
I'm talking about an entire album that tells a story. From track 1 'til the end ('bonus' tracks aside, I guess).
That would leave out albums such as 2112 (only the first half is one story), Sgt. Pepper's (it was meant to be a concept album, but the idea was scratched), etc. great albums though they might be.
Here is mine:
1. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
3. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
4. Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne (metal, story of MacBeth, has Chris Broderick of Megadeth on guitars)
5. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls (cheesy voice-acting aside, has outstanding prog-metal instrumentation/& songs)
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 15:15 |
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1. the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. Blood Mountain
4. Crime of the Century
5. Fear of the Blank planet ????????
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 15:26 |
No order.
Deloused in the Comatorium Quadrophenia Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Animals The Hazards of Love
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Jbird
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:02 |
 aginor wrote:
1. the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. Blood Mountain
4. Crime of the Century
5. Fear of the Blank planet ????????
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Are those question marks for Porcupine Tree if the album is a 'concept' album or not?
I know that alot of the Porcupine Tree albums are supposed to be concept albums (In Absentia, Deadwing, FoaBP, and others I think) but it's hard for me to think of them that way, myself.
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:04 |
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De-Loused is a concept album?
Here's mine:
5. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
4. Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
3. The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
2. The Lamb - Genesis
1. Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Something like that...
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Horizons
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:12 |
Lark the Starless wrote:
De-Loused is a concept album?
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Loosely but i think so.
"De-loused is based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward. The album is an hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma during which he experiences visions of humanity and his own psyche. Upon waking, he is dissatisfied with the real world and jumps to his death."
Edited by Horizons - September 09 2011 at 16:12
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:13 |
Easy for me:
Jesus Christ Superstar Dark Side of the Moon Small Change (IS it a concept album?) - Tom Waits Operation Mindcrime The Perfect Element, pt. 1
Runnerups:
Streets - Savatage The Human Equation The Final Cut The Wall Animals Wish You Were Here (IS it a concept album?) others.
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presdoug
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:28 |
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Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple
Triumvirat-Spartacus
Le Orme-Felona e Sorona
Eloy-Ocean
Nektar-Remember The Future
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voliveira
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 17:14 |
1-Dark Side Of The Moon
2-Scenes from a Memory
3-Crime of Century
4-One
5-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be" Matthew 6:21
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 19:12 |
Concept albums are what really hooked me on prog. Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - an album about a really f**ked up dream. I have really f**ked up dreams. Rick Wakeman, Journey To The Center Of The Earth - one of my first prog albums tie with King Arthur Gentle Giant,Three Friends or The Power And The Glory, though I'm iffy on it qualifying, if it does, but it in place of TF. Joe Jackson, Heaven And Hell - the seven deadly sins. Right (anger) has the best lyrics " f**k THIS BULL sh*t SPIT FLAT BEER
BACK
ROCK STAR DUMB LUCK SICK JOKE CLAP TRAP
DAMN THIN SHOE LACE YANK SPIT JERK SNAP
BOMB KIKE SCAM BANK TEAR DOWN DEAD FLAG" Gong - You, yeah I still haven't completed the trilogy but of the two I have, this is still my favorite "cops at the door" Honorable mention concept sides: Kayak - first side of Merlin Kate Bush - second side of Hounds Of Love Phil Manzanera, 6pm - Cissbury Ring would have been a second LP side if this was an LP. Utopia , Ra - the first side maybe not as much concept as theme. Forgot Jethro Tull, shame on me, Thick As A Brick or A Passion Play. So that's six and counting, sue me.  Can't pass on Nektar RTF as mentioned previously. Patric Moraz - i Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow Pink Floyd - Animals Vangelis - Heaven And Hell Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Gorn, Levin, Marotta, From the Caves of the Iron Mountain - can music performed exclusively in caves be considered a concept album? I think so. Marillion, Brave. oh, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Tibbetts - surely a concept album about Steve Tibbetts. Albums already mentioned I didn't think of as concept albums - Dark Side Of The Moon, Crime Of The Century. Not to argue or anything, I just didn't think of them as so. Lancaster/Lumley - Marscape
Edited by Slartibartfast - September 09 2011 at 19:35
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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TopographicTales
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 19:23 |
No specific order...
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet (I'm considering it a concept album, though some may not) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Floyd - Animals Rush - 2112 (for the suite alone, though the rest is great as well)
Edited by TopographicTales - September 09 2011 at 19:24
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 19:34 |
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory, Three Friends Jethro Tull - TAAB, A Passion Play Genesis - The Lamb Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination Pink Floyd - Animals, Dark Side The Who - Quadrophenia, Sell out
Pseudo-concept albums: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Moon Safari - Blomljud (lots of reprisals and reoccurring lyrical themes) ELP - Tarkus Pink Floyd - Wish you were Here
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I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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wjohnd
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 02:04 |
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pink floyd - animals
transatlantic - whirlwind
neal morse - sola scriptura
symphony x - paradise lost
and a toss up between thick as a brick, Lamb and Tales for 5th place out respect, but i've not listened to them in more than snippets for many years.
no doubt i've forgotten something obvious.
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 03:34 |
666 - Aphrodites Child
Revolutions - Magenta
Merlin ,Bard Of The Unseen - Kayak
Six Wives Of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
Purgatorio - Tangerine Dream
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 03:38 |
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My 5 (can't decide on order):
Quadrophenia
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
A Passion Play
Animals
The Snow Goose
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 03:39 |
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1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Casino - Casino
3. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
4. Coda - What A Symphony
5. Neal Morse - Testimony
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 04:40 |
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Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Sergent Pepper...
She (Caarmora)
Scenes from a Memory
Misplaced Childhood
Crime of The Century
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wjohnd
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 05:27 |
wjohnd wrote:
no doubt i've forgotten something obvious.
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damn .... marillion - clutching at straws
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 05:34 |
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Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
Kayo Dot- Coyote
The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
White Willow- Storm Season
Le Orme- Felona e Sorona
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Icarium
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 06:58 |
Jbird wrote:
aginor wrote:
1. the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. Blood Mountain
4. Crime of the Century
5. Fear of the Blank planet ????????
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Are those question marks for Porcupine Tree if the album is a 'concept' album or not?
I know that alot of the Porcupine Tree albums are supposed to be concept albums (In Absentia, Deadwing, FoaBP, and others I think) but it's hard for me to think of them that way, myself. |
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